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 "title": "Milton Read Again",
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 "subtitle": "(In Surrey)",
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    "text": "Three golden months while summer on us stole",
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   {
    "text": "I have read your joyful tale another time,",
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   {
    "text": "Breathing more freely in that larger clime",
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   {
    "text": "And learning wiselier to deserve the whole.",
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   {
    "text": "Your Spirit, Master, has been close at hand",
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   {
    "text": "And guided me, still pointing treasures rare,",
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   {
    "text": "Thick-sown where I before saw nothing fair",
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    "text": "And finding waters in the barren land.",
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   {
    "text": "Barren once thought because my eyes were dim.",
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   {
    "text": "Like one I am grown to whom the common field",
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   {
    "text": "And often-wandered copse one morning yield",
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    "text": "New pleasures suddenly; for over him",
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    "text": "Falls the weird spirit of unexplained delight,",
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    "text": "New mystery in every shady place,",
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    "text": "In every whispering tree a nameless grace,",
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    "text": "New rapture on the windy seaward height.",
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    "text": "So may she come to me, teaching me well",
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    "text": "To savour all these sweets that lie to hand",
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    "text": "In wood and lane about this pleasant land",
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    "text": "Though it be not the land where I would dwell.",
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